Suspending device for garments



May 15, 1923.

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H 2 NABERS SUSPENDING DEVICE FOR GARMENTS Filed Oct. 26. 1921 PatentedMay 15, 1923.

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HORACE Z. NABERS, OF GREENVILLE, SOU'ZLEZ CAROLINA.

SUSPENDING DEVICE FOR GABMENTS.

Application filed October 26, 1921.

T (IN 10 ham it may concern Be it known that I, HORACE Z. NABERS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Greenville, in the county ofGreenville and State of South Carolina have invented certain new anduseful limprovements in a Suspending Device for Garments, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The present invention relates to a suspending device for garments andhas for its prin cipal object to provide a simple and efficient deviceof this nature which is capable of being manufactured at a comparativelylow cost, is reliable in operation and well adapted to the purpose forwhich it is designed.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a hook memberwhich may be fastened to the garment for engagement with the bodyengaging element such as suspending straps.

With the above and numerous other obj ects in view, the inventionresides in certain novel features of construction, and the combinationand arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described andclaimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a fragmentary view of a garment andsuspending straps showing my invention attached thereto,

Figure 2 is a section taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a perspective of the garment engaging element,

Figure 4 is a similar view thereof looking from the other side,

Figure 5 is a plan view of the plate from which the garment engagingelement is formed, and

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the loop attached to the suspendingstraps.

Referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that 1 designates agarment provided with the usual waist-band 2 which shown and as is quitecommon, is thicker than the body of the garment. The garment engagingelement is indicated generally by the numeral 3 and is formed from aplate such as is shown in Figure 5 by providing a U-shaped slit 4therein from which is formed or bent the hook tongue 5.. The plateitself is bent intermediate its ends Serial at. 510,455.

so as to be substantially U-shape in cross sectlon as may be seen byreferring to Figure 2. Adjacent one end of the body of the garmentengaging element 3, there is provided a plurality of projections 6 whichare formed by punching the holes 7 in the plate with a pointed puncherthereby forcing the material from which the plate is formed from thebody of the plate as will be readily understood. These projections 6extend toward the other half of the plate when the same is in its bentposition.

These garment engaging elements 3 may be made of any preferred materialeither pllable or resilient. The elements 3 may be sewed in thecondition disclosed in Fi ure 5 if desired, being formed of some p iablematerial so that they may be bent to engage thegarment by the use ofpliers or even with the fingers depending upon the nature of thematerial for engagement with the garment. If the garment is sewed in thepositions disclosed in Figures 3 and 4: it is preferable that thematerial from which the device is made may be resilient so that theelements may be sprung in position on the garment. It is proposed, also,to have these elements placed on the garments as they are being made andin such a case it is preferable to have the holes 7 and projection 6made or punched while the device is on the garment.

The suspending straps 8 may be of any preferred construction such asthose now commonly in use which pass over the shoulders and are providedat their extremities with the loops 9 for engagement with the hookmembers 5 so that when it is desired to release the suspending device itis only necessary to disengage the loops 9 from the hook tongues 5 whichmay be done with a little effort.

It should, of course, be understood that the accompanying drawings anddescription relate to the preferred structure of my invention and that Ido not wish to be limited to the precise embodiment of my inventiondisclosed except as hereinafter claimed.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new is A suspendingdevice for garments constructed from a single blank of sheet metalcomprising a body U-shapecl in cross sechook formed on the upper edge ofsaid tion for receiving the upper edge of the gartongue. 7 10 ment andincluding an inner and an outer In testimony whereof I afiiX mysignature fiat leg and an upper curved connecting in presence of twoWitnesses.

5 portion, the outer leg and the curved con- HORACE ZQ NABERS. nectingportion having a tongue struck out Witnesses: therefrom, the tonguelying above and in r T. F. HUNT,

the same plane with the inner leg, and a "W. D. BROWNING.

